Subj : PLEASE ADD status
To   : Sean Dennis
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Apr 08 2021 05:12 pm

Hello Sean!

 ml>> there's a difference between the backbone and the echolist
 ml>> and how they work... AFAIK, they are still separate and
 ml>> distinct entities, too...

 SD> From what I understand, an echo cannot be put on the NAB unless it is
 SD> elisted.  Now this was from when I first got into Fidonet in the
 SD> mid 90s and AFAIK it's never changed.

Ah... so there *IS* a connection and not a complete distinction  
per se.

I guess Ben Ritchey's elist bot was a way to partially automate  
things with computers that were built to automate things and  
produce structured uniform announcements.

It would probably make no difference if the NAB based its echo  
selection from an announcement in ECHO_ADS or some other echo  
for such a purpose?

But considering that the last known post in this echo was in Nov  
2020 and went unanswered until Apr 2021, means that the echo  
movers are not watching this echo?
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